The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1887-06-25
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

The Fulton furnace at JACKSON w.,
owned by the Globe Iron Company, was
destroyed by fire on the night Of the 10Th,
originating from the stack bursting The
flames spread so rapidly that John Mar.
tin, the filler at the furnace, was cut on
and was burned at the top Of the stack.
Loss, $12, 900: no insurance.
Or. MACKENZIE examined the Germ an
Crown Princes throat on the 10th. The
doctor reported that he found that the
fungus growth had not enlarged and that
there were no signs Of congestion.
The drift of debate in the French Cham
Der of Deputies on the 10Th, indicates that
no money will be spent yet awhile on the
schemes to make Paris a seaport or to
connect the Atlantic ocean and the Medl-
terranean sea by canal.
ADvIoEs from India say $40 men Of the
garrison at Herat mutinled on the 9th
inst. A short, sharp fight ensued, in which
thirty loyal and fifty rebel troops were
killed. The mutineers fed, but most of
them were captured The leaders Of the
revolt were sent to Cabul.
The Pensyres murder trial at Buffalo,
N. Y, which has occupied four weeks,
came to an end at noon on the 10th. The
prosecution finished summing up in the
morning and the judge charged the jury,
who retired at 1925 p. m. The jury re-
turned verdict in the evening OF muir
der in the second degree.
The President has Withdrawn his es
sent to the action of Secretary Endicott
and Adjutant- General Drum in the matter
of returning captured Confederate flag S
to the Southern States, having discovered
that Congressional warrant was neces-
sary.
If the dispatches from places along the
Cape Breton coast can be relied upon,
half the American mackerel feet are in
imminent danger of being captured.
COLORADO has partially raised the quar-
antine against Missouri cattle.
MISS ANNIE Brooks, handsome young
brunette, twenty three years old, who lives
in East Orange, N. Y, awoke the other
morning rich. A wealthy uncle, Patrick
Brooks, died last March, leaving he SOL.
600. The young heiress has been working
in silk factory and in dressmakin g
shop TO earn her living
X. E. LEE Camp Confederate Vete rams
arrived in Boston on the 10Th. They were
the guests of Post 10, g. A. h. They
were met at Fall River by a delegation,
and on their arrival in Boston a process
sion was formed, consisting of the First
Regiment infantry, the National Lancers,
Post 2, G. A. r. and Post Is, g. A r, The
boys in gray received an ovation.
A SOLDIERS and sailors monument was
dedicated at New Haven, Conn, on the
18th.
A RAILROAD trestle gave way near New
port, KY, on the 18th, and four menw ere
fatally injured
THE steamer Chaplain was burned off
Charlevoix, Mich, on the 18th, with con-
siderable loss of life.
JOHNNY BEALL, twelve years old, Of
Eaton, o., is charged, by the coroner, with
the murder of his mother
SAMUEL MEYERS, superintendent of the
Miami County Qnd asylum for the poor,
is under arrest for brutality.
TIE Illinois Railroad and Warehouse
| Commission has made decision, re
ducing freight rates on coal from thirteen
to forty per cent.
| THE German Government is alarmed a.
the rapid spread of socialism throughout
the empire and is taking steps to check it
DR.. CARVER, the rife marksman, had
his eyes badly hurt on the 18th, by the
| explosion of cartridge. He will be lai(
| up for some time.
| STEPHEN WAsHBURN, a well.knowI
citizen of Wilton, N. Y, committed sui
eide on the 18th by hanging. He had bee
mentally deranged for some time, owinl
to gangrene.
ABOUT ten o'clock on the morning o
the 18th two eastern bound freight train
on the Pennsylvania Railroad collided a
Rohrestown, Pa. An engine and five car
were demolished. No person was in
jured,
DR.. ROSWELL DWIGHT HITOHCooK
president Of the Union Theological Semir
airy Of New York, died at his summe
residence at South Somerset, Mass, O
the night of the 10Th, of peritonitis.
AN extensive paper factory at Kiei
Russia, was destroyed by fire during tn
night Of the 10th, involving loss of $3.50
OOO
JOHN p. BENITz, we'll known through
out the country as baritone in variou
opera companies, died at his home
Pittsburgh, Pa, on the nth, of Bright
disease of the kidneys. The decease
was in the forty fifth year of his age.
JOHN W. SMITH, white man, and lead
err Of gang of desperadoes, was hange
in Heard County, Ca, on the 18th, for tn
murder of Bonner Barker, former con
federate.
THE bridge across Wits river in Dyer,
vile, o., gave way under team of fou
horses on the 18th, and fell through wit
a crash. Joseph Deal NJ L. Pyles and
boy named Keith went down with tn
structure and were probably fatally il
jured. The bridge had been built fort
years.
A COLLISION occurred, on the 18th, b,
tween passenger train and freigl
train on the SchuyllSill Valley railroad |
Parker's Landing, Pa. Charles Deiavel
fireman of the passenger train, was il
stantly killed, and George Paxson, ii
engineer, was seriously injured
FIRE broke out in the Gle Tclanl Carlo
Works on the 18th and spread so rapid
that many of the workmen escaped bar
headed and in shirt-sleeves, leaving the
tools and clothing behind. The worl
were entirely destroyed. Loss abol
$4,000. Insurance unknown.
| THE Whitcomb Cedar Post Company